Mamaweswen, The North Shore Tribal Council - Ontario Employment Services

Comprehensive employment and job search services

• assessment of skills, interests and experience
• job search strategies, including resume preparation
• information about careers and occupations, local labour market, employment and training opportunities
• on-the-job training, work experience, help in maintaining employment as well as information and referral to other employment and community services

Better Jobs Ontario

Skills training and financial support for unemployed individuals

• training program must demonstrate good employment prospects
• financial support based on need, may include tuition, instructional costs, books, transportation and/or a basic living allowance

Services for employers

• Offers help in identifying human resource skills requirements
• Provides matching of workplace needs to workers' skills, capabilities, interests and experience
• Provides support for developing on-the-job training plans and monitoring of placements to support retention

Youth Job Connection

• paid pre-employment services
• job matching, paid job placements with placement supports for participants and hiring incentives for employers
• mentorship, education and work transition supports

Youth Job Connection Summer

• paid pre-employment services
• summer job opportunities
• part-time jobs available during school year as long as they don't conflict with school
• mentorship, job-coaching and help returning to school after the program ends

• Anyone, including people with jobs, those who are under-employed, people looking for work, students, apprentices, internationally trained individuals, employers

• Services such as supported job search, job matching and placement, job retention services
• People who are unemployed and out of school

• Individuals who have been unemployed for six months or longer and are part of a low-income household

• Ontario residents 15-29 years who are eligible to work in Canada, unemployed, not attending school full time and experiencing multiple barriers to employment

• Ontario residents 15-18 years who intend to stay in, or return to high school or go on to postsecondary education after the job placement
• Focus is on those facing challenging life circumstances and at risk of experiencing poor transitions between education and work